Reviews for Growing Up With "Shoeless Joe" The Greatest Natural Player in Baseball History

The average rating for Growing Up With "Shoeless Joe" The Greatest Natural Player in Baseball History based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-08-29 00:00:00 Tracy Gray I got this book because I believed and still believe he was shafted by the baseball commissioner when he banned Shoeless Joe for life from the hall. The man was on the infamous white sox team that threw the series, but he was not in on the fix. He led the teams in every statistic you could count in the series. This man should be put in the hall and major league baseball should apologize for doing what they did. Judge Landis should have a baseball thrown high and hard at him. he is an egotist and a disgrace to justice. Other than that, I have no opinion.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-30 00:00:00 Brent Cochran Broker is a retired policeman from St. Paul, currently Mr. Mom while his wife is deployed. Baby Kit is less than 2, and you can tell Broker is a good guy. His ex-wife, Caren, calls him; she's hysterical because her current cop husband (Keith) is drinking, working with the mob, and he just hit her. He's got a suitcase with $2 million as payoff, and she's got it on tape. She calls a newspaper guy, Tom James, because he wrote an article on her gardening before, and he'll be a witness to all she tells Broker. Because Keith is on their trail, Caren hides the money in a cistern on some property. Keith is at Brokers, things escalates, James gets shot in the leg, and Caren is drowned; Keith is arrested. James wants Witness Protection to protect him form the mob/Keith, and the FBI approves. Several things don't add up, and Keith has a way to signal SOS to Broker. Broker questions the FBI's shoddy investigation and the fact that the local police don't get to question James about what happened up by the waterfall. The book was interesting in the information about Witness Protection program, and the author kept the plot moving along as it was told in different segments from Broker's viewpoint and James' viewpoint. James' unraveling was a bit of a disappointment for me, but I enjoyed the book.